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Today one amusing story caught my eye. The DNA India is reporting that in India a 70-year-old rapist will walk free from jail as the Supreme Court allowed his release a year before the completion of his seven year prison term for ravishing a 60-year-old woman, by giving him spiritual advice to turn to God and not repeat such heinous crimes.
“Don’t repeat such acts in future. Be a good man. Now at this age you have to do poojas and chant the name of God and spend the rest of your life in peace,” a bench of justices Markandeya Katju and RM Lodha observed, Read Full Story
So my question is Why only advice? Supreme Court should have given him some directives too isn’t it? Like Supreme Court could have asked him to spend rest of life in Himalayas and do some Havan and Tapasya to clean up his dirty soul….Right?
